List of Famous people born in Tokyo, Japan
Yūto Yoshida
Yūto Yoshida is a Japanese politician who serves as mayor of Yokosuka, Kanagawa from 10 July 2009.
Takayuki Shimizu
Takayuki Shimizu is a former professional baseball outfielder for Nippon Professional Baseball. He was the Number 3 draft pick by the Yomiuri Giants in 1996 and played for them until 2008. He is currently a Giants coach.
Hiroki Azuma
Hiroki Azuma is a Japanese cultural critic, novelist, and philosopher.
Kentaro Kyuko
Kentaro Kyuko is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Kenjirō Shinozuka
Kenjiro Shinozuka is a Japanese rally driver. Since his debut in 1967, his greatest successes have been as a works driver for Mitsubishi Motors. Behind the wheel of a Galant VR-4 he won the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship in 1988 and scored consecutive victories in the Rallye Côte d'Ivoire Bandama in 1991 and 1992, when it was a round of the World Rally Championship, making him the first Japanese competitor to win a WRC event. He is also of note for his success in the Dakar Rally, where he became the first Japanese winner of the world's most famous endurance rally in 1997 driving a Mitsubishi Pajero.
Erica Sakurazawa
Erica Sakurazawa is a Japanese manga author whose works are mostly published in josei magazines. She has some works published in the adult manga magazine Manga Burikko.
Makoto Tezuka
Makoto Tezuka is a Japanese film and anime director, born in Tokyo. He fashions himself as a visualist and is involved in the creation of moving images beyond film and animation. He partially owns Tezuka Productions and helped in releasing the posthumous works of his father, Osamu Tezuka.
Kanako Kondō
Kanako Kondō is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She played Noel Vermillion in BlazBlue. In November 2020, it was announced that she had recently gotten married and is currently pregnant.
Tomoko Abe
Tomoko Abe is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives. She is currently a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party. She was formerly the policy chief of the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP), and later the president and sole member of the short-lived Tomorrow Party of Japan.
Akira Senju
Akira Senju is a Japanese composer, arranger and conductor.